IBM CD-ROM-II Drive

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IBM CD-ROM-II Drive.

The IBM PS/2 CD-ROM-II Drive is a read-only drive that reads a compact disk (CD) containing appr. 600 million bytes of information (Data or Audio)

For MultiMedia operation set this drive to SCSI-ID 3 for all other select a low priority ID as 4, 3, 2, 1 or 0 and use high priority IDs for fixed-media (for Hard disk use IDs 6, 5 ...).

Configuration Examples.

Sample CD-ROM DOS Configuration (one Drive)

DOS - AUTOEXEC.BAT file

drive:\path\MSCDEX /D:IBMCD001 /M:10

DOS - CONFIG.SYS file
Device=drive:\path\CDROMDOS.SYS /D:IBMCD001

Sample CD-ROM DOS Configuration (two Drives)

DOS - AUTOEXEC.BAT file
drive:\path\MSCDEX /D:IBMCD001 /D:IBMCD002 /M:10

DOS - CONFIG.SYS file
Device=drive:\path\CDROMDOS.SYS /D:IBMCD001
Device=drive:\path\CDROMDOS.SYS /D:IBMCD002

Sample CD-ROM OS/2 Configuration (one Drive)

OS/2 - CONFIG.SYS file
DEVICE=drive:\path\SCSI.SYS /N:4
DEVICE=CDROM.SYS /N:4
IFS=drive:\path\CDFS.IFS

Sample CD-ROM OS/2 Configuration (two Drives)

DEVICE=drive:\path\SCSI.SYS /N:5
DEVICE=CDROM.SYS /N:5
IFS=drive:\path\CDFS.IFS

Parameters that effect the DOS - MSCDEX.EXE operation.

the name to use to locate the device driver. This name must be identical to the device-driver name given for the DEVICE entry in CONFIG.SYS.

as the first letter when assigning the CD-ROM-II drive letter. Instead of starting at the first free drive letter. MSCDEX.EXE starts at the drive letter specified by this parameter.

caching information on the CD-ROM-II. The default value reserves 20KB for sector caching for each drive.

memory the buffers, resident data, and resident code use.

information on the CD-ROM-II.

installed in a network server, to be shared on an IBM PC Local Area Network (LAN).

Parameter    Use

/D:drivername    Indicates the device driver name.

   This parameter indicates to MSCDEX.EXE
/L:driveletter    Determines what drive letter MSCDEX.EXE uses
/M:value    Tells MSCDEX.EXE how much memory to allocate for
/V    Provides memory-use statistics such as how much
/E    Enables MSCDEX.EXE to use expanded memory for caching
/S    Tells MSCDEX.EXE to allow an SCSI CD-ROM drive,

Parameter	Use
/D:drivername	Indicates the device driver name.
	This parameter indicates to MSCDEX.EXE
/L:driveletter	Determines what drive letter MSCDEX.EXE uses
/M:value	Tells MSCDEX.EXE how much memory to allocate for
/V	Provides memory-use statistics such as how much
/E	Enables MSCDEX.EXE to use expanded memory for caching
/S	Tells MSCDEX.EXE to allow an SCSI CD-ROM drive,

Parameters that effect the DOS - CD-ROM-II operation.

parameter in your AUTOEXEC.BAT.

Parameter    Use

/D:drivername    Indicates the device driver name.

   This name must be the same as that used in the MSCDEX

Parameter	Use
/D:drivername	Indicates the device driver name.
	This name must be the same as that used in the MSCDEX

Parameters that effect the OS/2 - CD-ROM operation.

during startup/installation.

Parameter    Use

/N:    Specifies the number of CD-ROM-II drives in the system.

/Q:    Specifies quiet mode for CDFS.IFS. Inhibits messages

Parameter	Use
/N:	Specifies the number of CD-ROM-II drives in the system.
/Q:	Specifies quiet mode for CDFS.IFS. Inhibits messages

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